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Below the Stars
Border Optics
July 2021 240pp 9781477323076 £36.00/ $45.00 HB
Cri�cal Cultural Communica�on June 2021 224pp 10 b&w illus. 9781479807017 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479806980 £74.00/ $89.00 HB
How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production Kate Fortmueller
Cultures of Surveillance on the US-Mexico Frontier Camilla Fojas
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Highlights how extras and working actors have cri�cally shaped the entertainment industry throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. By addressing ordinary actors as a labor force, Fortmueller proposes a media industry history that posi�ons underrepresented and quo�dian experiences as the structural elements of the culture and business of Hollywood.
Considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualized and imagined spaces in the US. As a place of con�nual crisis, permanent visibility, and territorial defense, the border is rendered as a layered visual space of policing. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Creator Culture
Deep Mediations
An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Edited by Stuart Cunningham & David Craig Foreword by Nancy K. Baym
Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Edited by Karen Redrobe & Jeff Scheible March 2021 440pp 78 b&w illus. 9781517908904 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9781517908898 £116.00/ $140.00 HB
June 2021 336pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479817979 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9781479879304 £82.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
There is a new class of cultural producers—YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, and others—who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disrup�ve industry of mone�zed “user-generated” content. define this new field of study and the emergence of creator culture.
For decades the concept of depth has been central to cri�cal thinking in numerous humani�es-based disciplines, legi�mizing certain modes of inquiry over others. Examines why and how this is, as scholars today navigate the legacy of depth models of thought and vision, par�cularly as these models impinge on the realms of cinema and media studies.
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Excludes Japan & ANZ
Desire After Dark
Dislike-Minded
March 2021 220pp 6 b&w illus. 9780253053824 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9780253053800 £70.00/ $85.00 HB
Cri�cal Cultural Communica�on June 2021 288pp 9781479809981 £22.99/ $29.00 PB 9781479809264 £74.00/ $89.00 HB
Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media Andrew J. Owens
Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste Jonathan Gray
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a norma�ve world.
The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and aliena�on? Draws from over two-hundred qualita�ve interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, iden�ty, representa�on, meaning, textuality, audiences, and ci�zenship. 2
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Fighting Visibility
Gaming Utopia
Studies in Sports Media March 2021 256pp 9780252085727 £18.99/ $24.95 PB 9780252043734 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
April 2021 280pp 27 b&w illus. 9780253054494 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9780253054487 £70.00/ $85.00 HB
Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC Jennifer McClearen
Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media Claudia Costa Pederson
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
With an interdisciplinary approach, Gaming Utopia emphasizes how game design, crea�on, and play can become poli�cal forms of social protest and examines the ways that games as art open doors to a more just and peaceful world.
Reveals how the Ul�mate Figh�ng Championship’s half-hearted efforts at representa�on generate profit and cultural cachet while hiding exploita�on women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Keywords for Comics Studies
Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Sarah Juliet Lauro
Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley & Shelley Streeby
Forerunners: Ideas First August 2020 100pp 9781517911003 £8.00/ $10.00 PB
Keywords June 2021 288pp 5 b/w illus. 9781479831968 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479816682 £74.00/ $89.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Kill the Overseer! profiles and problema�zes digital games that depict Atlan�c slavery and “gamify” slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing planta�on labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Across more than fi�y original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequen�al art. The essays also iden�fy new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twen�eth and twenty-first centuries.
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Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Media and Management
Media Crossroads
Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures Edited by Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos & Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Rutvica Andrijasevic, Melissa Gregg, Marc Steinberg & Julie Yujie Chen In Search of Media July 2021 128pp 9781517912246 £13.99/ $18.00 PB
March 2021 352pp 46 illus. 9781478011743 £22.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478010616 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
An essen�al account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management prac�ces governing factory labor. This book argues that management is enabled by media forms, just as media gives life to management.
The contributors to Media Crossroads examine space and place in media as they intersect with sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, class, and ability.
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Misogynoir Transformed
Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek
Black Women’s Digital Resistance Moya Bailey
Posthumani�es March 2021 400pp 40 b&w illus. 9781517910341 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9781517910334 £116.00/ $140.00 HB
Intersec�ons May 2021 256pp 9781479865109 £21.99/ $28.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Molecular Capture reveals how popular media consump�on and biological knowledge produc�on have converged in molecular anima�ons— computer simula�ons of molecular and cellular processes that immerse viewers in the temporal unfolding of molecular worlds—to produce new regimes of seeing and knowing.
Moya Bailey delves into her groundbreaking concept, highligh�ng Black women’s digital resistance to an�-Black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other pla�orms. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Not a Big Deal
On the Sidelines
Narrating to Unsettle Paul Ardoin
Gendered Neoliberalism and the American Female Sportscaster Guy Harrison Foreword by Julie DiCaro
Fron�ers of Narra�ve August 2021 342pp 4 photos, 6 illus. 9781496221957 £54.00/ $65.00 HB
Sports, Media, and Society August 2021 186pp Index 9781496226464 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496220271 £82.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
How texts might work to unse�le readers at a moment when unwelcome informa�on is rejected as fake news or rebu�ed with alterna�ve facts. Covers texts ranging from novels and short stories to graphic novels, films, and fic�on broadcasted and podcasted—all of which enact curious strategies of disrup�on while insis�ng that they do no such thing.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
An interdisciplinary examina�on of the current state of gender rela�ons and representa�on within the sports media industry. Shows how sportscas�ng’s dependence on gendered neoliberalism broadly places the onus on women for their own success despite systemic sexism and racism.
Operation Valhalla
Pain Generation
Writings on War, Weapons, and Media Friedrich Kittler, Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey WinthropYoung & Michael Wutz
Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie L. Ayu Saraswati May 2021 224pp 9781479808335 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479808342 £74.00/ $89.00 HB
a Cultural Poli�cs book April 2021 320pp 9781478011842 £21.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478010715 £87.00/ $104.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a fresh perspec�ve on feminist ac�vism by demonstra�ng how the problema�c neoliberal logic governing digital spaces like Instagram and Twi�er limits the possibili�es of how one might use social media for feminist ac�vism.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Opera�on Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Ki�ler on the close connec�ons between war and media technology.
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Racial Erotics
Radical Secrecy
July 2021 232pp 9780295749099 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295749082 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
Electronic Media�ons April 2021 264pp 7 b&w illus. 9781517910433 £19.99/ $25.00 PB 9781517910426 £83.00/ $100.00 HB
Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire C. Winter Han
The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Racial Ero�cs shows how sexual partnering within communi�es of gay men is deeply embedded within larger social structures that define whiteness as desirable and norma�ve while othering men of color.
This book sets forth the argument that progressive social goals would be be�er served by a radical form of secrecy, at least while state and corporate forces hold an asymmetrical advantage over the less powerful in data control. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News
Really Fake
April 2021 188pp 20 illus. 9781478021155 £7.99/ $10.00 PB
In Search of Media February 2021 118pp 9781517911010 £13.99/ $18.00 PB
Alexandra Juhasz Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois & Nishant Shah
Edited by Ellen C. Carillo & Alice S Horning DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The special issue of Pedagogy brings together scholars interested in instruc�ng students about misinforma�on, disinforma�on, and the role of bias in reading and wri�ng in this era of rapidly circula�ng fake news.
The new truth is the one that circulates: digital truth emerges from lists, databases, archives, and condi�ons of storage. The authors respond by taking up story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity to explore sociotechnological and poli�co-aesthe�c emergences in a world where informa�on overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Reclaiming Popular Documentary
Surviving Mexico
Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century Celeste González de Bustamante & Jeannine E. Relly
Christie Milliken & Steve F. Anderson July 2021 384pp 49 b&w illus., 1 b&w table 9780253056887 £20.99/ $26.00 PB 9780253056870 £66.00/ $80.00 HB
July 2021 250pp 9781477323694 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9781477323380 £84.00/ $105.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades, thanks to streaming services like Ne�lix and Hulu. Despite this fact, documentary studies s�ll tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. Reclaiming Popular Documentary reverses this longstanding tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Drawing on a decade of rigorous research in Mexico, González de Bustamante and Relly explain how journalists there have become their own ac�vists and how they hold those in power accountable. 5
Technology and the Historian
The Digital Black Atlantic
Transformations in the Digital Age Adam Crymble
Edited by Roopika Risam & Kelly Baker Josephs Debates in the Digital Humani�es February 2021 272pp 11 b&w illus. 9781517910808 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9781517910792 £116.00/ $140.00 HB
Topics in the Digital Humani�es April 2021 272pp 9780252085697 £20.99/ $28.00 PB 9780252043710 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
How can digital tools help be�er understand the African diaspora across �me, space, and disciplines? How can African diaspora studies inform the prac�ces of digital humani�es? This collec�on of essays offer insights into race, migra�on, media, and scholarly knowledge produc�on.
Technology's role in the History field’s development remains a blind spot among digital scholars. Mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together.
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The Digital Frontier
The Digitally Disposed
Framing the Global August 2021 280pp 5 b&w tables 9780253056498 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9780253056474 £58.00/ $70.00 HB
Electronic Media�ons June 2021 280pp 31 b&w illus. 9781517907150 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517907143 £89.00/ $108.00 HB
Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web Sangeet Kumar
Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Sangeet Kumar interrogates the World Wide Web in the age of globaliza�on. Par�cularly, he considers the ques�on of internet governance and the impact of Google, Facebook, and Twi�er on a global scale. In doing so, he iden�fies four theories that bring to light the problems of a culturally and poli�cally democra�c global digital network.
Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist founda�ons. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connec�on, flexibility, and prosperity that are o�en associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploita�on. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Filing Cabinet
The Generic Closet
A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson
Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom Alfred L. Martin, Jr.
May 2021 280pp 84 b&w illus. 9781517909468 £27.99/ $34.95 PB 9781517909451 £116.00/ $140.00 HB
April 2021 242pp 17 b&w illus. 9780253054593 £19.99/ $25.00 PB 9780253054586 £66.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the first in-depth history of this neglected ar�fact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that informa�on and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.
By exploring how systems of power produce ideologies about Black gayness, The Generic Closet deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience and inves�gates whether this generic closet s�ll exists.
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The Other Side of the Digital
The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China
March 2021 304pp 3 b&w illus. 9781517910235 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517910228 £89.00/ $108.00 HB
May 2021 280pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295748795 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748788 £76.00/ $95.00 HB
The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi
State News and Political Authority Emily Mokros
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
A necessary, rich new examina�on of how the wired world affects our humanity. Andrea Righi argues that the Other of the digital acts as a new secular God, exer�ng its power through endless accountability that forces us to sacrifice ourselves for the digital.
This comprehensive history of the Peking Gaze�e frames the newspaper as the cornerstone of a Qing informa�on policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Illuminates the rela�onship between media, informa�on, and state power.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
The World Computer
Undoing Networks
Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism Jonathan Beller
Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst & Lea Zierott In Search of Media February 2021 126pp 9781517906696 £13.99/ $18.00 PB
Thought in the Act February 2021 352pp 9781478011163 £22.99/ $28.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring and conceptualizing prac�ces, technologies, and poli�cs of disconnec�ng. How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connec�vity? Undoing Networks enables a different connec�vity: “digital detox” is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life.
Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodifica�on of informa�on and the financializa�on of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quan�fica�on of value that intensify social inequality.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Visions of Beirut
Recent Highlight
The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure Hatim El-Hibri
InsUrgent Media from the Front
June 2021 288pp 40 illus. 9781478010777 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478010449 £83.00/ $99.95 HB
A Media Activism Reader Edited by Chris Robé & Stephen Charbonneau
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ha�m El-Hibri explores how the crea�on and circula�on of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.
November 2020 328pp 21 b&w illus. 9780253051394 £33.00/ $40.00 PB 9780253051387 £83.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
InsUrgent Media from the Front takes a look at ac�vist media prac�ces in the 21st century and sheds light on what it means to enact change using different media of the past and present. 7